Advancing the government’s effort to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a $778 million dam upgrade plan on Thursday. Lieutenant General Todd Semonite signed off on […]
If you’re a boating enthusiast of any type and enjoy the lakes in North Alabama like Guntersville, Wheeler, Pickwick and others; beware the Asian Carp are on their way. I’m not talking about the carp […]
Researchers will experiment with a riverbed bubbler and sound system as part of the ongoing effort to slow the spread of Asian carp throughout the Mississippi River basin. European technology originally designed to steer migrating […]
B.A.S.S., along with other hunting, angling, conservation and outdoor industry organizations, Friday submitted public comments in support of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to prevent Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. The […]
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will open a special commercial fishing season on Lake Chicot to target Asian carp from Nov. 1-Dec. 31. Asian carp, particularly silver carp and bighead carp have been a […]
First reported by the Illinois News Network. Approximately 1 million pounds of Asian carp is expected to be pulled from Illinois waterways once culling efforts are completed this season. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources […]
Most don’t know one carp from another. All are exotic.The photo to the left is a 30-pound-plus grass carp illegally stocked in a small lake. Common carp have been in this country for so long […]
It’s a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from […]
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources last week sent several fisheries staff to assist the Illinois DNR with an ongoing Asian carp removal project. The goal of the project is to respond to the leading […]
We’ve all seen the funny videos of people fighting Asian carp with nets, baseball bats, and even swords. Now it’s time to get serious. Asian carp are poised to infiltrate the Great Lakes and devastate […]
Burr Edde III of Malta Bend became Missouri’s most recent record-breaking angler when he landed a giant blue catfish on a stretch of the Missouri River in Saline County using a trotline. The new “alternative […]
The Invasive Species Centre has partnered with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to launch a comprehensive Canadian website on Asian carps. Asian Carp Canada will provide information on all aspects of Asian carps, including the most […]
The Department of Natural Resources yesterday announced that the latest round of Asian carp environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling on the lower Kalamazoo River in Allegan County produced all negative results. In October the DNR and […]
Boating public on the upper mid-western rivers and some lakes are finding a new navigational danger, flying carp. The Asian Silver Carp and Bighead Carp have become prolific in the Midwest will take to the […]
The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) has announced the release of an updated Monitoring and Response Plan (MRP) intended to protect the Great Lakes from Asian carp, and to prevent the invasive fish species […]
I must be traveling through another dimension. I’ve been beamed into a war zone where the Great Lakes are being threatened by approaching armies of Asian carp and there’s no agreement on how — or […]
About 25 miles south of Chicago lies a stretch of water that nothing lives in. It’s not pollution or over-fishing that has wiped out nearly everything save for insects and bacteria here, it’s electricity. At […]
No fisherman ever wants to see thousands of fish suddenly doing the backstroke … unless they happen to be Asian carp. It seems floating down Kentucky’s Cumberland River below the Lake Barkley dam were an […]
The Minnesota state senate Monday approved a measure that would rename the undesirable fish “invasive carp.” It’s a response to concern that the current term casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light. Senators […]
U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., chairwoman of the Congressional Boating Caucus, recently introduced the Defending Against Aquatic Invasive Species Act of 2014. The legislation would authorize the Secretary of the Army to address the issue […]
State officials from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) have confirmed that environmental DNA (eDNA) from the invasive Asian silver carp has been found in […]
Asian carp have been found in fisheries from Colorado to New Jersey and from North Dakota to Florida, according to a map released recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey, […]
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